This project focuses on the Palio di Siena as a visual and cultural ritual, approached through a personal and selective gaze.
The intention is not to describe the event as it appears today, but to isolate its symbolic and aesthetic dimension.

In many images, the background and the public have been removed.
The presence of crowds and smartphones changes the meaning and the visual strength of the scene, turning the ritual into a contemporary spectacle.
By removing these elements, the images move away from the documentary dimension and towards a more timeless and symbolic representation.

The work is an attempt to bring the Palio back to a suspended, almost mythical space, where gestures, bodies, and tradition stand on their own, without the noise of the present.